SB1092 - Relating to the referral of certain students receiving special education services to a local intellectual and developmental disability authority for services or public benefits.

  89R5256 CMO-D     By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 1092       A BILL TO BE ENTITLED   AN ACT   relating to the referral of certain students receiving special   education services to a local intellectual and developmental   disability authority for services or public benefits.          BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:          SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 29, Education Code, is   amended by adding Section 29.030 to read as follows:           Sec.   29.030.     REFERRAL TO LOCAL INTELLECTUAL AND   DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY AUTHORITY. A school district shall refer   each student who qualifies to receive special education services   under this subchapter on the basis of a diagnosed or suspected   intellectual or developmental disability to a local intellectual   and developmental disability authority for services or public   benefits, including services under a Medicaid waiver program   established under Section 1915(c), Social Security Act (42 U.S.C.   Section 1396n(c)).          SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2025-2026   school year.          SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives   a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as   provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this   Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this   Act takes effect September 1, 2025.